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Pulsatilla sachalinensis

(Pulsatilla sachalinensis H. Hara)

Perennial herb up to 25 cm tall. Basal
leaves are weakly hairy, up to 7 cm long and
9 cm wide, broad-heart-shaped, on petioles up
to 15 cm long. Peduncles up to 30 cm tall.
Bedspread 3 leaves, accrete, deeply dissected
into lobes up to 5 mm wide. The flowers are
usually solitary, up to 4 cm long and 3 cm
wide, whitish-pale violet-bluish.
Narrow-area endemic. It is known only
from a single location in the middle part of
Sakhalin Island (Uglegorsk region), on the
shores of the Tatar Strait, north of the village
Boshnyakovo on the coastal rocks.

Pulsatilla taraoi

(Pulsatilla taraoi (Makino)

Takeda ex Zam. et Paelge)

Perennial herbaceous, at the beginning
of the growing season, silky pubescent
plant, 25 cm high. Leaves are triple
palmate, tri-sectioned, broad-heart-
shaped or almost reniform, about 6 cm
long and wide. The flowers are erect,
bellshaped, slightly yellowish, about 2
cm in diameter.
Found only on the Kuril Islands: Ketoy,
Chirpoy, Brother Chirpoev, Simushir,
Urup, Iturup, Shikotan.

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